'I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day'

She added the reason the couple disagree is that Sarkozy "sees people in groups of thousands rather than as groups of friends we know."

Bruni, who gave birth to baby Giuliana last year, has had a high profile love life and has frequently been pictured on the arms of various musicians and rock stars in the past, including Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, controversially while he was still married to Jerry Hall.